[Cipus Rejects Becoming the King of Rome]

Title

[Cipus Rejects Becoming the King of Rome]

Period

1550-1600;

Geographic

Ancient Rome

Italy

Description

This engraving illustrates a crowd of people surrounding a humble farmer named Cipus. Cipus is depicted in the centre of this crowd with his arm in the air and a somewhat sad look on his face. A man is illustrated in front of Cipus holding a crown over his head. Cipus, as explained by Ovid, was told by a seer that his fate was to become the King of Rome, however, Cipus did not want the crown as he had horns on his head and Rome was already on its way to becoming a republic. Cipus is holding his arm up in the engraving to stop the crown being put on his head and tells them that they must banish him. The city depicted in the background of the engraving is Rome.

Image Creator

Virgil Solis (Engraver)

Type

Text

Woodcut Engraving

Identifier

mta:11898

Language

spa

Source Name

Las Transformaciones de Ovidio en lengua Española, repartidas en quinze libros, con las Allegorias al fin dellos, y sus figuras, para prouecho de los Artifices [The Transformations of Ovid in the Spanish language, distributed in fifteen books, with the allegories at the end of them and their figures, for the benefit of the creators]

Parent Collection

Las Transformaciones de Ovidio en lengua Española. Woodcut engravings by Virgil Solis (1595)

Image

mta_11898_OBJ.jpg

Collection

Ovid's Metamorphoses

Subject

Seers

Roman Mythology

Greek Mythology

Roman Republic

Cipus